- Hey.
- Ready?
- Yeah.
- You look nice.
- I don't know how I'm supposed to look for court.
- Come on, we've still got to get a park.
- It, it'll all be over soon.
And then you can put all this behind you.
- Bye.
- I'll see you later.
- Oh.
- Mum.
Thank you.
You're always there for us and I never thank you.
Here.
Oh.
- Anna!
- It's the cleaners, they wanna change days.
I'm nervous.
- I know.
You just answer the questions.
Okay? - Mm-hmm
- That's all you've got to do.
You know what they are.
It's not like you've done anything wrong.
- Yes, yes, I know.
♪ Write down what's bothering you ♪
♪ Right now, while it's eating at you ♪
♪ Set free ♪
♪ The insatiable grief ♪
♪ Let the water mix with ink ♪
- I'm at the school, Anna, something's happened.
- Yeah, I know that, Joe, I know that.
I just got a million texts.
- Anna, he wasn't here at the school,
when I came to pick him up.
He wasn't here.
- Well, that's impossible.
That's impossible.
I mean, what are you doing?
Where are you?
Are you at...
Are you in the right place?
So where is he, Joe?
I don't, okay, I don't understand.
- You need to drive straight here, okay?
Just come straight to the school.
- You just need to find him.
Find him, Joe.
You just find him.
Hi.
Look, I'm sorry, everything's changed.
I have to go back home.
No.
No, it's my boy, it's my Sam.
- Half an hour early.
- Can we just sit here?
- What are you nervous about?
- I will send Simon to prison.
- Yeah?
- By what I say, I,
I will change his life.
- No, by what he did.
He did it.
He committed a crime and he should pay.
- Thank you
for coming.
- Simon, you have to tell me why you took Sam.
How did you know what he looked like?
What school he went to?
I'll go, this was a bad idea.
- Stop, okay, um, you told me.
- What?
- We met on the pier.
Remember?
It was windy.
- Hi.
- I um, I rang your mum and she gave me your address.
How are you?
- I'm fine.
Lost my job.
The school thought it was best that I moved on.
- You've been through a terrible thing.
Carlo's family, they're just ripped apart.
And you?
You're married.
- I am.
- A mother.
- Mm-hm.
- Where are you living?
- Brighton.
- Do you work?
- Yes.
I work for a recruitment firm.
- How old's your son?
- Five.
- And just the one?
- Just the one.
- Private school, nannies,
life in the back of the Range Rover.
Jumping castle in the backyard for his birthday.
- Yeah, you know, it's so strange,
you speak exactly the same as when we were at uni.
- Huh.
Did you grow up?
- Yep.
- Why did you contact me?
- Because I was worried about you.
- Are you happy?
- Simon.
- Are you?
How's your marriage now?
- My marriage?
- Marriage seems to make most people unhappy.
- What has my marriage got to do
with you kidnapping my son?
- I didn't kidnap Sam.
- Yes, you did.
- No, I didn't.
- You know what, you actually did.
- Kidnap implies ransom.
Kidnap implies a gain for me, implies malice.
There were none of those things.
- Well, without a ransom note,
why would the jury think it's kidnapping?
- Well, it doesn't matter.
He didn't have your permission, therefore he's going down.
We know it, his lawyer knows it and the judge knows it.
You okay?
- Yeah, I'm fine.
I might actually find a loo.
I'll uh, I'll see you in there.
- I should've been there to pick him up from school.
- Well, I was away, I shouldn't have been away.
Joe, listen, I need to tell you something.
Who's testifying?
- Angela Erbakan.
- Hello.
- Hi.
I'm Angelique.
- Yes.
Do you know who I am?
- Yeah.
You're Joe's wife.
- Anna Marin.
- What would you like from me today?
- I wanna ask you some questions.
- About what I do?
- Perhaps.
About what you've done.
Did you know that I used to date Simon years ago,
when I was at uni?
- Yeah, yeah, he spoke a lot about you.
- How is he?
- He's got mental health problems.
He's been seeing a psychiatrist.
- At uni he was funny and he was kind
and he had a fantastic mind.
- He hasn't, he hasn't worked since the Carlo thing.
- I always thought he'd have a brilliant life.
You've had sex with my husband in here?
On this bed?
- Yeah.
- When you have sex with Joe,
do you look at each other?
- What do, what do you mean?
- Do you have sex with my husband with your eyes open,
looking into his eyes?
- I don't know.
- Do you kiss him?
- Not on the mouth.
- Do you enjoy it?
I don't even care.
- Don't you love your husband?
- I didn't say that.
- Joe was a client I didn't dread seeing.
- Are you gonna see Simon?
- It's got absolutely nothing to do with you.
Are you in love with Simon?
- Yeah.
Yeah, I am.
- I wanna know about my son.
You were there.
You were with Sam.
Was he all right?
Tell me honestly.
Was my son frightened?
- No, no.
He was playing with Simon's dog.
And we had some snacks,
and we watched some cartoons.
I know kids, I've got a little nephew.
He was, he was totally fine.
- Thank you.
- Angela Erbakan just gave us a win.
- Why?
- She just changed her story on the stand,
implicated the shrink, confessed her love for the accused.
Get something to eat, you're up next.
- You ask me anything.
I'll tell you the truth.
- Your psychiatrist came to my house.
He told me you'd saved Sam's life.
- A few days after we met,
I wanted to drop off the books I was telling you about.
I came to your house.
The door was open-
- Wait, how,
how did you know where I lived?
- You told me you lived in Brighton.
You told me Sam's school.
Sam was playing outside.
He kicked the ball into the pool.
He climbed over the fence.
He fell in the pool.
- No.
- And your mum was vacuuming upstairs.
She wouldn't have heard.
So I pulled him out.
- No.
- Sam was scared that he'd get in trouble.
I wasn't supposed to be there.
So I told him I was the gardener
and that we should keep the secret between us.
- He never told me.
- I was never ever gonna hurt him.
You must know that.
- No.
I just don't understand why you took him.
I mean, did you wanna hurt me?
- No, no. - Is that what you wanted?
- No, I only meant to have him for a couple of hours.
I felt like
I had to do something
to make you stop,
turn around and just think for a moment.
- Think about what?
- Call Anna Katerina Marin.
- Mrs. Marin, in your sworn statement
given on the night Sam was taken,
and later when you spoke to Detective Staszik,
you stated you were supposed to
be on a 4:30pm flight to Sydney.
Then you were certain about this again
when you gave evidence under oath
at the pre-trial hearing.
And today, what, you only think
that you were supposed to be
on a 4:30 p.m. flight to Sydney?
- I'm, I'm pretty sure it was 4:30, or thereabouts.
- And the arrangement that you had with your husband
was that he was to pick Sam up from school,
and you would drive to the airport?
- Yes.
- In your car.
- Yes.
- To attend a conference in Sydney.
- Yes.
- So the toll records for that day
show that your car left your office in Collins Street
and got onto the CityLink at 3:17 p.m.
However, instead of heading west
in the direction of the airport,
you headed in the opposite direction.
You went in the direction of the Mornington Peninsula.
You see, here, your car
is shown entering the EastLink at 4:06 p.m.
So is that your car's registration referred to
in the CityLink records, Mrs. Marin?
- Yes, that's right.
- So the Mornington Peninsula
is where Simon Heywood's parents
have owned a house for over 20 years.
Now, have you been to that house, Mrs. Marin?
- I, I think so, when I was at university.
- Well, Mrs. Marin, I would put it to you
that on the day your husband called you,
he told you that your son Sam was missing,
you were on your way to meet Simon Heywood
at his parents' holiday house
with the intention of spending the weekend with him.
Mrs. Marin?
Mrs. Marin!
- Mrs. Marin, are you thinking about your answer
or are you indeed refusing to answer?
- No, I wasn't.
I was not having an affair with Simon Heywood.
I wasn't on my way to his parents' house on Mornington.
- So you were going to a conference in Sydney?
- No, I wasn't.
- Can you tell the court, Mrs. Marin,
where were you going?
- I'd booked a hotel room on the Mornington Peninsula
and I was, I was gonna stay there
for Friday and Saturday nights.
- With whom?
- With no one.
With myself.
- You look beautiful.
- Thank you.
- We're all set for this weekend?
- Yes.
I've planned it down to the last detail.
- I'm sure.
Hope it wasn't too hard to get away.
- No.
I'm sure the world can do without me for two days.
I, I needed a break.
- Well, a holiday by yourself.
That's perfectly acceptable, Mrs. Marin.
So why didn't you tell the police this in your statement?
- I don't know.
- Your Honor.
- Mr. Henshaw.
- Prosecution requests a short adjournment.
- Granted.
- A holiday.
What is going on?
Why didn't you tell me about this holiday
that you had to have?
And why did you tell police
you were going on a conference?
- Because that's what I told you.
I didn't, I didn't think it would make a difference.
I didn't think.
- Are there any more surprises
or changes I should know about, Mrs. Marin?
- This is a private conversation.
- This is a criminal court.
We spent a lot of time preparing our case.
- Look, I know this is your job,
but this is our life, all right?
So fuck off.
- I would like to remind you that perjury,
lying in a court of law, is a serious criminal offense.
- There's not one single thing
I trust about you right now.
- Mrs. Marin, in your statement to the police
on the evening of the 19th of April this year,
you claim that you didn't give Simon Heywood permission
to pick up your son, Sam Marin, from school.
Can you confirm that for us?
- Please answer the question, Mrs. Marin.
- I will.
Do you have any idea how frightened Joe and I were?
You've seen a family lose a child before, that Carlo boy.
Do you have any idea what it's like to lose a child?
- This is the thing, Anna.
Ten years of knowing you and there's no one single day-
- Simon.
- I don't think you can touch me.
Anna.
I picked Sam up from school that afternoon
to stop you from having an affair.
- What?
- I know you were seeing a man every week
in the city for lunch.
I saw you.
You were about to spend that weekend
with the man you'd been having lunch with.
- I was going to a work conference.
- I rang your office.
They had no knowledge of your involvement in a conference.
- I wanted to stop you from having an affair.
A chance to look at your life,
and your job and your son.
I was gonna keep Sam long enough for you to turn around,
come back to the city,
give up the weekend away.
To scare you just enough.
I was gonna bring him home at 8:30,
but the police came and,
and now I'm here.
- I see.
- I'm truly sorry, Anna.
I just need to know one thing.
Did it work?
- Yes.
Yes, Simon, it worked.
Simon, we went out 10 years ago.
It was another lifetime.
- Same life, Anna.
For me.
- Look at where you are.
- I felt a debt.
- A debt for what?
- When I met you,
I didn't think that anyone would ever love me.
But you really did.
- Yeah, I did.
But now you're in love with a memory.
- It doesn't matter if I never see you again after this.
I'll always love you.
- Please, Mrs. Marin,
I understand this is difficult,
but you must answer the question.
- No, it's not,
it's not difficult, it's just very personal.
It shouldn't be anyone's business here.
- Repeat the question, Ms. Serkin.
And you will answer, Mrs. Marin.
- Now, you have stated verbally today
and in your signed statement
that you did not give Simon Heywood permission
to pick up your son, Sam, from school.
Is that correct?
- No, it's not.
I've made a mistake, I've, I've lied.
I lied on my statement and I've lied in court.
I did give Simon permission to pick Sam up.
I did.
- Your Honor.
- Mr. Henshaw.
- Prosecution requests an adjournment
to reconsider position.
- Granted.
The court will wait for the prosecution
to decide how best to proceed.
Court dismissed.
- Come inside.
- Where's Sam?
- He's asleep.
- Gotta get some things.
- Yeah, but where, where are you going?
- I'm not staying here.
- Joe.
- You kicked me in the guts.
I looked at you in that courtroom today
and I didn't have a clue who you were.
You lied today so that idiot who kidnapped our child
could go back to reading fucking poetry!
Staszik says you're gonna be charged with perjury.
That carries a jail sentence.
- I did what I thought was right, Joe, I...
Simon did something stupid,
but he doesn't deserve to go to jail.
- Oh, Anna, wake up.
You've been had.
Did he tell you that he loved you,
and that he always would?
That you're the most amazing woman that he's ever met,
the most beautiful?
It appealed to your stupid vanity,
and you bought it.
I'm gonna get my stuff (sighs).
- Sam?
Sam?
Oh, Sam.
We need to get you ready for school.
- You were asleep.
- I know, I know.
We um, come on, let's get dressed.
- Quick sticks.
Come on, let's get to the car quickly.
Mum?
- Hello (laughs).
- Nanna!
- Hey. - Hey!
Hey.
Oh.
- Well, we were gonna have pizza for dinner.
- Oh, great idea.
How have you been?
- I'm okay.
- Mm-hm.
- Dad's not here.
- Well, where is he?
- He's at a conference.
Everyone's always going to a conference.
What is it, anyway?
- Oh, it's just, you know, it's like
a work thing, you sleep over and...
It's like a school camp.
- Well, you'd better go jump in the bath
and we can get pizza, eh?
- Yeah, I'll go run it for you.
- I can.
- You uh, you going out for tonight?
- Doubt it.
- I didn't know if you'd come tonight.
So, Joe's gone to Mitch's.
Packed a suitcase of clothes
and he won't answer my phone calls.
- What were you thinking?
Uh...
Mum (sighs).
- Oh, Anna, don't hide.
- I did what I thought was right.
- Sweetheart, you put Simon above your marriage.
- No.
- Look at this place.
Your beautiful home, your wonderful son.
You want for nothing.
- Joe has lost his job.
This house is up for sale.
There's nothing solid about any of this.
- Well, if there's nothing solid here,
then that is because of you.
No, you watch your husband
do all the heavy lifting.
You...
- What?
- You don't appreciate him.
- You have to back off.
You don't even know
what you're talking about right now.
- You remember what it was like for me
being a single mum.
Is that what you want for you?
For Sam?
- Joe is not the perfect man you think he is.
You don't know him.
You see exactly what he wants you to see.
- No, look, I know that.
But Joe earned my respect.
He stood by you when you lost Peter.
- That happened to both of us.
And we have not dealt with that well, have we?
- Watching you grieve (sighs).
- It never goes away.
- Come on, come on.
- It's okay.
- What?
- I'm just going out.
- Where?
- Night, mum.
- I haven't seen Joe since this morning.
- Right.
- How is he?
He won't answer my phone calls.
- He's okay.
- Yeah.
How are you?
Is Greta looking after you?
- Oh, never.
But I got an insurance payout
and I'm still employed, so.
- Does that mean you've found another Joe?
Come on, you two were good together.
You were a team, weren't you?
You caught the wave, he surfs it in, wasn't that it?
- I'm doing okay.
- You and Joe used to talk about breaking away,
starting your own company.
You wanted to be your own bosses.
- Well, we talked about a lot of things.
- Yeah, and so whatever was going on between you two,
you were good together.
You were successful.
Why wouldn't you wanna keep that going?
- Not now.
- Hi.
- Would you like a drink?
I, I've ordered food for us,
if that's all right with you?
- Tea is fine.
- Spoke to my lawyer this morning.
Said he'd spoken to you.
- Yes, thank you.
I am a little worried about his fees.
- Oh, don't worry about it.
I wanted to thank you for keeping me out of it.
- Didn't really feel like I had much of a choice.
- You did the right thing.
- You said you'd help Joe.
- Well, he's a little hot at the moment,
but I'll do what I can.
Thank you.
- And what's that?
- Smart man like Joe,
I'm sure he'll fall on his feet.
- I was assuming you were gonna offer him a job.
- Doing what?
- Well, you said you'd help us
if I kept you out of this.
If I lied about where I was going that night.
I did that, Don.
I, I did that in court.
I perjured myself.
- We could've had such a nice time together.
Don't you think?
Mm, it's good.
- Fuck you.
- Thanks for coming in, Anna.
You may be pleased to know
the Crown won't be pressing perjury charges against you.
- Huh!
Sorry.
- Do you want some water or tissue, or?
- No.
Why?
- These decisions are not made lightly.
But various things are weighed up.
Just need you to
sign this form.
You can leave it at the front counter.
- Ah, detective.
Thank you for your help.
- I do the job I get paid to do.
Good luck, Mrs. Marin.
- Hi.
Sorry.
- Hi, Anna.
- Hi, um,
thank you for meeting me.
- No, not at all.
But uh, just to be clear,
I'm not here in any professional capacity.
- Look, if I don't pay you and we just sit here and chat,
I mean, is that acceptable?
- That's fine.
- How's Simon?
- Well, he's home, which is the main thing.
And he has Empson, his dog,
and Angela,
his parents and me.
And he seems in good spirits.
- Did I do the right thing?
- I'm not a priest, Anna.
- My husband has left me.
I did this to keep Simon out of jail.
So, please can you tell me if you think
that I have done the right thing.
- I think Simon wouldn't have survived in prison,
and now he has a chance to get well.
You know, the strange thing is that maybe he was right.
I mean...
If Joe and I had been more solid
and more trusting of each other,
then Simon taking Sam,
that might have united us,
but it's just unraveled us.
- I'm sorry to hear that.
- How do you know if a marriage is over?
- I was married for twenty years
and now I'm getting a divorce.
My wife was very unhappy for a long time,
but she didn't tell me.
And she tried to get through it, but she covered it up.
And I suppose if I was honest,
I knew.
But uh,
of course, kids are a great distraction.
They make you feel like you're a team,
even if you might not be.
And I loved her,
but that's not enough, is it?
- No.
- So maybe someone has to pull the plug.
- And is she happy now?
- Yeah, I think.
She might be.
- Should I visit Simon?
- Well, look, that's up to you.
I think he might benefit
from hearing why you changed your story, yeah.
- There you go.
How's Sam? Family?
- They're good, thanks.
I wanted to tell you why I changed my testimony.
- Okay.
- Before Sam,
Joe and I had another child.
His name was Peter.
And he passed away.
So the idea of losing another child is...
I changed my testimony
to thank you for saving Sam's life.
But Simon, you need to know that you taking Sam
has hurt Joe and I
in ways you can't even begin to imagine.
So, thank you for being there that day.
But now you must stay out of my life.
- Anna.
Goodbye.
- Hey.
- Do you want some wine?
- No.
- I made some lunch.
- We got an offer on the house.
- Yeah, I saw the email.
- Yeah, what do you think?
- Um, well, I think we probably have to.
My wage isn't covering the cost of the mortgage.
- Yeah, Mitch was talking about
doing something together, him and I.
Starting our own business.
- That's great, you two work well together.
So then maybe we can hold off on the real estate
for a couple of days.
- Sure, I don't really know what I'm doing, so.
- Mm-hm.
Sam's wondering what's going on.
I told him that I was staying with Mitch
for a little while.
That he wasn't well
and he needed looking after (clears throat).
- I need to talk to you (clears throat).
I need to tell you about some things
that you don't know about
and that you should know about.
- Okay, great.
- For the past six months or so,
I've been having regular lunch dates with Donald Sheere.
- Sheere? Why?
- I don't know, I thought he was,
thought he was charming and he was funny
and I enjoyed his company.
Please let me finish, Joe.
We were gonna spend the weekend together,
that night that Sam went missing.
And of course, when you called,
I just came straight back to town so nothing happened.
Don didn't want his name in the papers.
He promised that if I kept him out of this,
he would help us out.
- Oh, help us out? How?
By fucking my wife?
- He paid for the barrister
that got me off the perjury charges.
- Are you kidding?
You know, I thought we were okay
now that Sam was a little bit older.
I thought maybe we were getting somewhere.
- You were getting sex from a prostitute
and I was contemplating an affair.
You think that's okay?
This is your idea of a good marriage?
Were you gonna leave me for Don Sheere?
- No (sighs).
What are...
Okay, what do I do at work?
You know, what are, who are my friends?
What, what books do I read?
I just wanted someone who would see me,
who would actually look at me.
Even if it was just for like, an hour a week.
That's all he was to me.
I just needed that.
- I thought after Sam was born,
maybe you'd come back to me.
I did go my own way.
Had to go and look for sex elsewhere.
I'm not proud of it.
I threw myself into my work.
I hated coming home.
Your sadness, I hated it.
I couldn't fix it.
- Well, why didn't you just talk to me?
Why didn't you tell me?
- This huge thing happens,
our son is taken.
And yet, it's like it only happened to you.
When we lost Peter,
these things, they hurt me too.
- Joe, I don't,
I don't actually know how to help someone.
I don't know.
I, I don't know how to help myself.
You just appear so strong all the time.
You know, you appear like it's always fine.
- You want me to be strong.
You don't see me in any other way.
- Joe, that's just not true.
It's what you think that I want.
It's what you think that I, I'm asking for,
but it's just not true.
- What about lying in court?
- If I told you, you would've screamed at me
and told me I was an idiot.
You leave me no room to speak the truth.
And then I'm just second-guessing your fury and your mood.
- You're scared of me?
- Yes.
Your anger is frightening.
And worse still,
it shuts everything down, including me.
I know I should have told you the truth,
but I just thought I could handle it all myself.
You know, I, I thought I could...
I'd get Simon out of jail,
I'd get Sheere off our backs,
I'd, I'd, he, I'd make him get me
off these perjury charges,
I'd use him to get you a job.
I just did not think about how that would hurt you.
- Anna.
- I never knew that marriage could be so lonely.
- I'm right here.
- Mum!